A long old tradition of dungeon farming is now dead. As we all know boosting has been an extremely contentious part of WoW Classic. Many argue that the meta killed the open world and ruined the looking for group channels and with good reason too. Why would anyone with even a few hundred gold endure a 300 hour leveling experience when they could shorten it and not touch the game while its being done to reach endgame content. I believe this part of the change is saving the community from itself though. Questing is a core part of the experience of the game and in the great words of Sid Meier “Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game”.
Given this however, another core part of the game that people have been doing for years seems to also be dead and this is what I’d like to address. AoE farming in any capacity inside of dungeons seems to be dead. For many many years there have been players soloing dungeons for gold and this change especially with the stuns and root breaking seems to have killed it entirely.
Why does this matter? It is NO secret that wow classic is absolutely being botted the hell out of. Servers are also much larger than they used to be. For example my server Benediction has a raiding population of about 30,000 raiders. If we say that every person raids on at least 2 characters that is still a massive population of 15,000. This is almost 7 times the size of what servers were intended on being. This makes open world farming extremely difficult. Nodes have been farmed so much they are almost worth nothing. There are fishing bots hidden everywhere just fly around.
AoE dungeon grinding offers a relaxing alternative for many players. Myself not included! But I know many people who were soloing dungeons like strath with no boosties for raw gold so that they could afk/work/ take care of kids throughout the day without being pressured. This offered a alternative to many who didnt want to compete with others.
A solution to a bigger problem? Perhaps killing the xp was a good idea but I feel as if the philosophy was to kill RMT they could have just banned the players selling the gold. I don’t think its hard to flag accounts and characters mailing 1000’s of gold every day to players they have literally never played with there “gdkp” cut. Maybe its just a product of our time and with increasing MTX in games we are naturally seeing more players being okay with it. I mean I know I was until I was ban mid raid.
by destroying many methods people did to farm gold legitimately by being overly heavy handed here people will simply just buy gold or stop playing til wrath.
Only thing this has done right now is increase the price of gold, making the more unscrupulous sellers all the more happy…the ones who make gold through botting and credit card fraud.
I’ve heard this wasnt the case and you still get stunned but it can be done. This is a great solution to the problem though. I think an addition like this would stop boosting but also allow players to farm gold effectively in dungeons.
Perhaps they could make it so if you are the only player in an ID these changes dont happen?
I heard it was a duration thing… if you pull lots of mobs and slowly grind them down you will get stunned… if you pull normal packs and kill them you won’t
Looks like on Bene right now there is a new setup bring practiced, that uses 3 mages instead of 1 for the same “farm” methods. They are being sold super overpriced for runs, like 1k for 5 runs, for the first group i saw doing it. But will certainly go down in price as more ppl set it up.
It will just be more expensive, and people will just buy more gold from 3rd party. Sad
So is playing your class to the fullest. If you group over pulls and is in combat for more than 30 seconds the mobs become immune to frost trap and other snares. Now instead of slowing down the pack and killing them, it is an almost certain wipe. Great game mechanics…
I have tanked many a shattered halls or slabs where a few too many mobs will get pulled and thanks to hunters, mages and shamans we have been able to kite them around and win.
I guess blizzard says we should wipe than use our entire toolkits
Sorry but you have to come out of your cave to join the rest of us now.
The good thing is, bots are severely limited now which means inflation will slow down, so the gold you farm in the open world will be worth so much more
This was my exact thought as well. I can’t tell you how many times in shattered halls we had mages and hunters helping kyte mobs to survive. Terrible changes hope they revert it soon.